Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir William Turner Walton NPG x32799

© Derek Allen / National Portrait Gallery, London

by Derek Allen

During a sixty-year career, Walton composed music in various styles and genres, including symphonies, concertos, ballet music, opera and film scores. Influenced by jazz and the music of Stravinsky, he collaborated with Edith Sitwell on Façade - An Entertainment (1922), a musical accompaniment to her poems. His later works, notably Belshazzar's Feast (1931), three concertos and two symphonies, show the evolution of a personal style combining modernist elements with traditional forms. Walton met Edith's brother Sacheverell at Oxford University in 1918 and... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.